CVE-2016-8960

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-03-27 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.2 could allow a user with lower privilege Capabilities to adopt the Capabilities of a higher-privilege user by intercepting the higher-privilege user's cookie value from its HTTP request and then reusing it in subsequent requests. IBM Reference #: 1993718.

Affected products

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence: 10.2, 10.2.1, 10.2.1.1, 10.2.2

References

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21993718
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96963
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21993718
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96963

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